CURRENTS: RUGS

CURRENTS: RUGS; Historic Designs, Modern Colors

By Elaine Louie

Published: August 12, 1999

Annie Sherburne, a rug designer in London, looks to the past for motifs and to the present for color. ''Sometimes, a rug is based on a traditional image, a circle, or petals, or an Egyptian lotus,'' she said. Her rug, top right (6 by 7 feet, $2,200), was inspired by a mandala, but the colors come from a flower shop near her home.

She will be at the New York International Gift Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from Sunday through next Thursday. Information: 011-44-171-328-2182 or by E-mail at anniesherb@aol.com.